johnwang wrote:Here is a simple sparring rule:
- If you can punch on my head, you win that round.
- If I can get you into a clinch (either double under hooks, or double over hooks, or head lock), I win that round.
Test for 15 rounds (either you punch my head first, or I get you in clinch first) and whoever wins more that 7 rounds will be the winner that day.
In other words, my sparring partner can do anything that he wants on me. He doesn't have to worry about my kick, my punch, even my throw. He only have to stop me from doing a clinch. It can be a very civilized sparring.
Through the sparring process, I try to prove whether "anti-striking" is possible or not. I'll need a huge amount of data in order to prove it or dis-prove it.
What's your opinion on this?
IMO, this is fine for grappler who wish to learn how to apply their arts against strikers.
However, from the perspective of TCMA, I feel that this type of training -- if done too much -- may prevent people from developing TCMA's distinctive fighting style in which the boundary between grappling and striking is often blurred.
In TCMA, a strike is often a grappling technique, and a grappling technique often contains elements of striking.